Yang Lake Grotto-Heaven.
Jiang Ning stepped out of the stone cave, slipped nimbly through a gap in the vines, and stood upon the island once more.
Sunlight streamed down from the ten suns, bathing the entire island in dazzling gold.
Scorching, pure yang energy filled the air, mingling with the faint chill rising from the seabed to form a rhythm unique to this grotto-heaven.
Jiang Ning swept his gaze across the island. With a slight stirring of his mind, every spiritual herb containing the essence of the great sun and every ore deposit holding pure yang power became as clear to him as the lines on his palm.
His figure flickered like a breeze sweeping through the wilds, pausing from time to time.
At each stop, he gathered spiritual plants or ores containing the essence of the great sun.
Most of them were unfamiliar to him; he knew neither their names nor their medicinal properties.
But he did not care.
With his Whale Swallowing and furnace traits, he could easily refine any spiritual plant or ore into pure energy for his own use.
Through his perception, he could clearly sense how much energy each plant and piece of ore contained.
In just an hour, he had scoured nearly a third of the island.
Yet even that single hour had yielded a rich harvest, with the spiritual plants and ores he had gathered already piling up like a mountain.
Though most were fairly ordinary, there were also rare treasures whose energy content astonished him.
If I can refine all of these, I can greatly shorten the accumulation needed for the Inner Elixir Life-Nourishing Technique. I might even break its limits again. Jiang Ning made his calculations as he plucked another small, fiery herb growing beside a river of lava.
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